Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2002 09:17:11 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> To: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu> Cc: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.ORG>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ttys patch - any objections? Message-ID: <200209271617.g8RGHBsJ006276@apollo.backplane.com> References: <20020927.011111.127772150.imp@bsdimp.com> <XFMail.20020927113547.jhb@FreeBSD.org> <15764.31551.728376.977637@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>
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:John Baldwin writes:
: > > Why? If someone hasn't done a MAKEDEV of the device, it is just as
: > > dead. MAKEDEV + kill -1 1 will bring it back if they didn't
: > > (untested, but it is the normal way to do these things).
: >
: > Agreed, that's why I said "maybe" b/c it would be preserving the
: > behavior for the !devfs case. I agree that I think it should actually
: > always just give up if the device file doesn't exist. So do people
: > agree with this change?
:
:Yes!
:
:Thanks,
:
:Drew
Yah, that makes a whole lot of sense to me too.
-Matt
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